1、精品文檔合集：【精編匯總版】英語IliveinthelandofDisney合集】1/14【精編匯總版】英語IliveinthelandofDisney合集精品文檔合集精品文檔合集：【精編匯總版】英語IliveinthelandofDisney合集】2/14（一 ） I live in the land of Disney, Hollywood and year-round sun. You may think people in sucha glamorous, fun-filled place arc happier than others. If so, you have some mi

2、staken ideas aboutthe nature of happiness.Many intelligent people still equate happiness with fiin. The truth is that fun and happinesshave little or nothing in common. Fun is what we experience during an act. Happiness is what weexperience after an act. It is a deeper, more abiding emotion.Going to

3、 an amusement park or ball game, watching a movie or television, arc fun activitiesthat help us relax, temporarily forget our problems and maybe even laugh. But they do not bringhappiness, because their positive effects end when the fun ends.I have often thought that if Hollywood stars have a role t

4、o play, it is to teach us that happinesshas nothing to do with fun. These rich, beautiful individuals have constant access to glamorousparties, fancy cars, expensive homes, everything that spells “happiness”. Bui in memoir aftermemoir, celebrities reveal the unhappiness hidden beneath all their fun:

5、 depression, alcoholism,drug addiction, broken marriages, troubled children and profound loneliness.Ask a bachelor why he resists marriage even though he finds dating to be less and lesssatisfying. If he, s honest, he will tell you that he is afraid of making a commitment. Forcommitment is in fact q

6、uite painful. The single life is filled with fun, adventure and excitement.Marriage has such moments, but they are not its most di stinguishing features.精品文檔合集：【精編匯總版】英語IliveinthelandofDisney合集】3/14Similarly, couples that choose not to have children arc deciding in favor of painless fun overpainful

7、happiness. They can dine out ever they want and sleep as late as they want. Couples withinfant cliildren are lucky to get a whole night s sleep or a three-day vacation. I dont know anyparent who would choose the word fun to describe raising children.Understanding and accepting that true happiness ha

8、s nothing to do with ftm is one of the mostliberating realizations we can ever conic to. It liberates time: now we can devote more hours toactivities that can genuinely increase our happiness. It liberates money: buying that new car orthose fancy clothes that will do nothing to increase our happines

9、s now seems pointless. And itliberates us from envy: we now understand that all those rich and glamorous people we were sosure arc happy because they arc always having so much fun actually may not be happy at all. Which of the following is true?A.Fun creates long-lasting satisfaction.B.Fun provides

10、enjoyment while pain leads to happiness.C.Happiness is enduring whereas fun is short-lived.D.Fun that is long-standing may lead to happiness.To the author. Hollywood stars all have an important role to play that is to _.A.rite memoir after memoir about their happiness.B.tell the public that happines

11、s has nothing to do with fun.C.teach people how to enjoy their lives.D.bring happiness to the public instead of going to glamorous parties.3.In the authorJ s opinion, marriage.A.affords greater fiin.eads to raising children.精品文檔合集：【精編匯總版】英語IliveinthelandofDisney合集】4/14C.indicates commitment.D.ends i

12、n pain.4.Couplcs having infant children.精品文檔合集：【精編匯總版】英語IliveinthelandofDisney合集】5/14A.arc lucky since they can have a whole night s sleep.B.find fun in tucking them into bed at night.C.find more time to play and joke with them.D.derive happiness from their endeavor.f one get the meaning of the true

13、 sense of happiness, he will .A.stop playing games and joking with others.B.makc the best use of his time increasing happiness.C.give a free hand to money.D.kccp himself with his family.（二）Once it was possible to define male and female roles easily by the division of labor. Menworked outside the hom

14、e and earned the income to support their families, while women cookedthe meals and took care of the home and the children. These roles were firmly fixed for mostpeople, and there was not much opportunity for women to exchange their roles. But by the middleof this century, mens and womens roles were

15、becoming less firmly fixed.In the 1950s, economic and social success was the goal of the typical American. But in the1960s a new force developed called the counterculture. The people involved in this movement didnot value the middle-class American goals. The counterculture presented men and women wi

16、thnew role choices. Taking more interest in childcare, men began to share child-raising tasks withtheir wives. In fact, some young men and women moved to communal homes or farms where theeconomic and childcare responsibilities were shared equally by both sexes. In addition, manyAmericans did not val

17、ue the traditional male role of soldier. Some young men refiised to bedrafted as soldiers to fight in the war in Vietnam.精品文檔合集：【精編匯總版】英語IliveinthelandofDisney合集】6/14In terms of numbers, the counterculture was not a very large group of people. But itsinfluence spread to many parts of American societ

18、y. Working men of all classes began to changetheir economic and social patterns. Industrial workers and business executives alike cut down on“overtime” work so that they could spend more leisure time with their families. Some doctors,lawyers, and teachers turned away from high paying situations to p

19、ractice their professions inpoorer neighborhoods.In the 1970s, the feminist movement, or women s liberation, produced additionaleconomic and social changes. Women of all ages and at all levels of society were entering thework force in greater numbers. Most of them still took traditional women s jobs

20、 as public schoolteaching, nursing, and secretarial work. But some women began to enter traditionally maleoccupations: police work, banking, dentistry, and construction work. Women were asking fbrequal work, and equal opportunities for promotion.Today the experts generally agree that important chang

21、es are taking place in the roles ofmen and women. Naturally, there are difficulties in adjusting to these transformations.Which of the following best express （he main idea of Paragraph 1?A.Women usually worked outside the home fbr wages.B.Mcn and women s roles were easily exchanged in the past.C.Men

22、, s roles at home were more firmly fixed than womenr s.D.Mcn and women s roles were usually quite separated in the past.Which sentence best expresses the main idea of Paragraph 2?精品文檔合集：【精編匯總版】英語IliveinthelandofDisney合集】7/14A.The first sentence.B.Thc second and the third sentences.精品文檔合集：【精編匯總版】英語Il

23、iveinthelandofDisney合集】8/14C.Tlic fourth sentence.D.Thc last sentence.3.In the passage the author proposes that the counterculture.A.destroyed the United States.B.transformed some American values.C.was not important in the United States.D.brought people more leisure time with their families.4.It cou

24、ld be inferred from the passage that.A.men and women will never share the same goals.B.some men will be willing to exchange their traditional male roles.C.niost men will be happy to share some of the household responsibilities with their wives.D.morc American households arc headed by women than ever

25、 before.5.The best title for the passage may be.A.Rcsults of Feminist MovementsB.New influence in American LifeC.Counterculture and Its consequenceD.Traditional Division ofMale and Female Roles.(三)A study of art history might be a good way to learn more about a culture than is possible tolearn in ge

26、neral history classes. Most typical history courses concentrate on politics, economics,and war. But art history focuses on much more than this because art reflects not only the politicalvalues of a people, but also religious beliefs, emotions, and psychology. In addition, informationabout the daily

27、activities of our ancestors-or of people very diflerent from our own can beprovided by art. In short, art expresses the essential qualities of a time and a place, and a study ofit clearly offer us a deeper understanding (han can be found in most history books.In history books, objective information

28、about the political life of a精品文檔合集：【精編匯總版】英語IliveinthelandofDisney合集】9/14 country is presented; thatis, facts about politics are given, but opinions are not expressed. Art, on the other hand, issubjective: it reflects emotions and opinions. The great Spanish painter Francisco Goya wasperhaps the fi

29、rst truly political“ artist. In his well-known painting The Third of May 1808, hecriticized the Spanish government for its misuse of power over people. Over a hundred years later,symbolic images were used in Pablo Picassos Guemica to express the horror of war. Meanwhile,on another continent, the pow

30、erful paintings of Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco, and DavidAlfaro Siqueirosas well as the works of Alfredo Ramos Martines depicted these Mexicanartists, deep anger and sadness about social problems.In the same way, art can reflect a cultureJ s religious beliefs. For hundreds of years in Europe,

31、religious art was almost the only type of art that existed. Churches and other religious buildingswere tilled with paintings that depicted people and stories from the Bible. Although most peoplecouldnt read, they could still understand biblical stories in the pictures on church walls. Bycontrast, on

32、e of the main characteristics of art in the Middle East was (and still is) its absence ofhuman and animal images. This reflects the Islamic belief that statues arc unholy.More can be learned about a culture from a study of art history than general history because arthistory_.A.show us the religious

33、and emotions of a people in addition to political values.精品文檔合集：【精編匯總版】英語IliveinthelandofDisney合集】10/14B.provide us with information about the daily activities of people in the past.C.givc us an insight into the essential qualities of a time and a place.精品文檔合集：【精編匯總版】英語IliveinthelandofDisney合集】11/14

34、D.all of the above.Art is subjective in that_.A.a personal and emotional view of history is presented through it.B.it can easily rouse our anger or sadness about social problems.C.it will find a ready echo in our hearts.D.both B and C.Which of the following statements is true according to the passag

35、e?A.Unlike Francisco Goya, Pablo and several Mexican artists expressed their politicalopinions in their paintings.B.History books often reveal the compilers political views.C.Religious art remained in Europe for centuries the only type of art because most peopleregarded the Bible as the Holy Book.D.

36、A1I the above mentioned.The passage is mainly discussing_.A.the difference between general history and art history.B.Tlie making of art history.C.What can we leani from art.D.The influence of artists on art history.5.In may be concluded from this passage that_.A.Islamic artists have had to create ar

37、chitectural decorations with images of flowers orgeometric forms.B.History teachers are more objective than general history.C.it is more difficult to study art history than general history.D.Pcoplc and stories from the Bible were painted on churches and other buildings in order topopularize the Bibl

38、e.（四） Recent research has claimed that an excess of positive ions in the air can have an ill effecton people1 s physical or psychological health. What are positive ions? Well, the air is full of精品文檔合集：【精編匯總版】英語IliveinthelandofDisney合集】12/14 ions,electrically charged particles, and generally there is

39、 a rough balance between the positive and thenegative charged. But sometimes this balance becomes disturbed and a larger proportion ofpositive ions are found. This happens naturally before thunderstorm, earthquakes when winds suchas the Mistral, Hamsin or Sharav are blowing in certain countries. Or

40、it can be caused by abuild-up of static electricity indoors from carpets or clothing made of man-made fibres, or fromTV sets, duplicators or computer display screens.When a large number of positive ions are present in the air many people experienceunpleasant effects such as headaches, fatigue, irrit

41、ability, and some particularly sensitive peoplesuffer nausea or even mental disturbance. Animals are also affected, particularly beforeearthquakes, snakes have been observed to come out of hibernation, rats to （lee from their burrows,dogs howl and cats jump about unaccountably. This has led the US G

42、eographical Survey to fund anetwork of volunteers to watch animals in an cflbrt to foresee such disasters before they hitvulnerable areas such as California.Conversely, when large numbers of negative ions are present, then people have a feeling ofwell-being. Natural conditions that produce these lar

43、ge amounts are near the sea, close towaterfalls or fountains, or in any place where water is. sprayed, or forms a spray. This probably精品文檔合集：【精編匯總版】英語IliveinthelandofDisney合集】13/14accounts fbr the beneficial effect of a holiday by the sea, or in the mountains with tumblingstreams or waterfalls.To increase the supply of negative ions indoors, some scientists recommend the use ofionisers: small portable machines, which generate negative ions. They claim that ionisers not onlyclean and refresh the air but also improve the health of people sensitive to excess posit